On 1/18/06, Steve Adeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, its running great, is there a way I can tell what my max speeds are?
hdparm -t I'm sure there are more sophisticated benchmark programs around as well. > also is there anything that can limit drive use in a similar way as nice can > limit cpu usage? Do a search in the archives, I'm sure there have been threads discussing powering down the drive when not in use. It's also a pretty common requirement for laptops so there is definitely ways to do this. > I'd like to be able to copy some shows over the network to my other machine > but to limit this such that no write operations are missed. I wouldn't worry too much. The disk throughput requirements of MythTV are actually pretty low compared to the capabilities of modern machines. Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users